Johann Michael Zeitler from Burgsinn and Elisabeth Schneider from Burgsinn married 5 May 1766 in Büdingen.
Georg Zeitler, a hosier, his wife Dorothea, and children (Johann, age 24; Karl, age 21; Maria, age 18; Hartmann, age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott along with Michael Zeitler, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth.
Michael Zeitler, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and brother Hartmann (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767.
Karl Zeitler, a farmer, settled in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. He and his new wife are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
Karl Zeitler from Krasnoyar and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Gnadendorf.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Zeitler family came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1862 Gnadendorf Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 461.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ks019, Ks081, Ks112.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #616.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 418, 425.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3649, #3719.
Brent Mai